RhysU

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by RhysU 2y ago
"My friend, I see your life is falling apart but don't put down the bottle" is something no rational person says.
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by RhysU 2y ago
My Bayesian prior has been sufficiently updated to effectively know: I don't know a single mother with a restraining order for a son who doesn't smoke too much weed. I have met a bunch of mothers and sons in my life. In a Popperia
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by RhysU 2y ago
Heh. Can one eliminate the high from THC without removing its other impacts? This would be akin to taking pills preventing alcohol inebriation. (Or, use high school freshman for the study and really convincing upperclassmen as actors to con
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by RhysU 2y ago
Anecdatum: I personally know a mother who has a restraining order on her son, whom I also personally know, due to a psychotic episode. And the son's been smoking way too much weed for a long time. Heartbreaking. So, I know.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Some drunks drink more as they approach bottom. Is it the booze? Is it being the sort of person who becomes a drunk? Does it matter? More booze ain't helping. You're really going to call for a double blind study here checking if e
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by RhysU 2y ago
That's why one records the check amount in a ledger kept electronically or physically with the checkbook. You will then always know what you have even if the pesky landlord waits 3 months to cash a check. It's old school but works
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by RhysU 2y ago
But not fifth?
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by RhysU 2y ago
Seconded. Any bank that does is not a bank I would use.
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by RhysU 2y ago
I am glad that she's still managing okay despite her ET. Kudos to you for helping her navigate which interfaces she can use now. My father's ET makes me terrified of gradually losing my own ability to interact with any technology
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by RhysU 2y ago
Did you intend to ask if being story- vs fact-based is story or fact? I find it fun that you posed this then said you identify as fact-based. This dichotomy is a story (regardless of whether or not it has any basis in fact).
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by RhysU 2y ago
Why should the transit system butt into the jurisdiction of the traditional government just because transit is built somewhere? As a silly dystopia, imagine that a transit agency could grab revenue as you suggest it might. Then everything b
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by RhysU 2y ago
Then the people have spoken. They can speak again and differently if they like.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Property taxes include that, generally.
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by RhysU 2y ago
> Just imagine if the public could capture the (financial) upside it produces... Like through taxes on the sale of the property or the increased business income it produces? The public will.
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by RhysU 2y ago
"Comedy Writing With Small Generative Models" by Jamie Brew (Strange Loop 2023) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2o4f_2L0No Spend the 45 minutes watching this talk. It is a delight. If you are unsure, wait until the
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by RhysU 2y ago
Wildfires in forests are indeed burning trees. Wildfires in suburban communities are burning non-wood materials, including many things made from hydrocarbons.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Not remotely the same experience. One never picks up the pointer finger during input with the nub. The thumb on the track pad looks like one is a crab, constantly twitching and lifting.
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by RhysU 2y ago
..until proven inconvenient when exercising raw power. Anyone want to renege on his word to pardon his son?
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by RhysU 2y ago
Exactly. If they can't calculate it how do they know they're not losing money? If they know they're not losing money how do they know that?
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by RhysU 2y ago
Definitely biased. The older things we read tend to be great works by smart people so we attribute that style to intelligence. But it was just written style, among a certain class, once upon a time. English styles changed. For example, Hemi
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by RhysU 2y ago
> Also, no computers in their rooms - everything is done in more shared space, with monitors facing the rest of the room. Seconded. I saw an older friend have a dedicated computer room for the desktops of everyone in his family. It was a
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by RhysU 2y ago
It's terrible and the humanitarian aspect is awful. Still, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds tells me > "The strongest Santa Ana winds yet recorded occurred in early December 2011. An atmospher
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by RhysU 2y ago
Source paper is https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2213815120 . The paper, which looks quite good, amounts to (stationary baseline + climate drift) explaining burning more than (stationary baseline) alo
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by RhysU 2y ago
Which of those named weather events was outside of historical experience in the area? From the outside, wet years and dry years and desert winds seem very much like the expected climate for SoCal.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Occasionally throw in a surprising ending. A friend infrequently would end lackluster stories, those where he'd lost the conversational baton, with "...and then I found $20." Anyone who had never heard the trick immediately p
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by RhysU 2y ago
My kid was bumped recently, by a similarly unobservant driver. Fortunately unharmed. I don't think the solution is reducing traffic density in my town, however, through taxation. Rather, encouraging accountability and discouraging dist
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by RhysU 2y ago
Apologies. I revised my comment after you replied. I did not notice the reply.
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by RhysU 2y ago
I have some agency. I can drive faster or slower, more or less aggressively, choose a vehicle based on safety, not drive in bad weather or when the bars let out, drive more or less frequently. I can't control if some batshit crazy trie
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by RhysU 2y ago
Well, hell, let's think about everyone who choked to death in New York. Krazy Kat should levy a masticulation tax below 60th street. It'll be easier to get a table! Think of all the environmental benefits of not eating fancy foods
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by RhysU 2y ago
Calling it "pure propaganda" is itself pure propaganda. Counterpoint, this poor soul who was literally burned to death: https://nypost.com/2024/12/31/us-news/mystery-woman-torched-... The subwa

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